PLRCAWG builds organizing infrastructure through a combination of membership-based community power, grassroots fundraising, and strategic grant partnerships. We believe the financial base of our work must grow from the communities we organize with — and we are building that base through multiple, complementary avenues.
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We are not a nonprofit, and we don't aspire to be one. Our primary financial base is built through membership power — most concretely demonstrated through the buyers' club structure, where the collective purchasing commitments of organized communities directly fund the work. This is the model we center and want to scale.
At the same time, we are actively exploring grant proposals to help add staff capacity for intensive organizing initiatives, as well as concrete infrastructural investments: cooler space, processing equipment, trucks, communications infrastructure, and travel that our volunteer teams cannot sustain alone.
We are grateful to Polo's Pantry for fiscally sponsoring us — giving us the ability to pursue grants together and, hopefully, gain real institutional investment into our communities through community-owned assets and infrastructure that make these initiatives more sustainable over the long term.
Because we are not a nonprofit, we also heavily emphasize resourcing through people's creativity and culture — fundraiser parties, concerts, flea markets, art prints, and food vending that are woven into the fabric of our movement rather than separated from it.
We are also open to being contracted to lead research projects, deliver political education workshops, or provide technical expertise for organizations and institutions that want to invest in this work. These engagements allow us to be fairly compensated — and to redirect those funds directly toward campesin@ communities and the organizing initiatives they sustain.
Our fundraising strategy reflects our organizing values: broad participation, community accountability, and multiple entry points for contribution.
Buyers' clubs & membership dues — the foundation of our financial model. When organized communities commit to collective purchasing, they create the stable economic base that sustains our matching funds and operations.
Community events — fundraiser parties, concerts, and festivals that build relationships while building our budget. Music, food, and movement all at once.
Flea markets & vending — setting up tables at flea markets and community events, vending food and goods with proceeds going directly to campaigns.
Prints & art — producing and selling political art, posters, and prints that are both cultural artifacts and a means of resourcing the work.
Recurring dues — weekly and monthly contributions from individual supporters who want to sustain the work over the long term.
Grant partnerships — pursued alongside Polo's Pantry as fiscal sponsor, targeting investments in community-owned assets and staff capacity rather than operational dependency.
The buyers' club structure is our primary model — collective purchasing commitments from organized communities are the most durable financial foundation we can build.
We pursue grants selectively — for coolers, trucks, processing equipment, staff capacity, and community-owned assets that strengthen our initiatives, not for operational funding that creates institutional dependency.
We are grateful to Polo's Pantry for fiscally sponsoring PLRCAWG — opening doors to grant funding and allowing us to pursue real institutional investment in community-owned infrastructure together.
Because we are not a nonprofit, we emphasize people's creativity heavily. Fundraiser parties, art prints, concerts, and flea markets aren't just tactics — they're how we build relationships and resources simultaneously.
Weekly and monthly dues from supporters build the organizational resilience to sustain intensive work — and keep our financial base accountable to the communities we organize with, not to outside funders.
Whether through grants, dues, or events, our aim is the same — concrete assets owned by communities: cooler space, land, processing capacity, and tools that make our organizing infrastructure sustainable and self-sufficient.
We are open to contracted engagements for research, workshops, and political education — fairly compensated work whose proceeds are redistributed directly toward campesin@ communities.
Three campaigns currently open. Click each one to read the full context, see regional details, and find donation links.
Matching funds for direct-farm bulk purchases for working-class buyers' clubs across the Bay Area and Los Angeles — connecting organized consumer communities with small campesin@ producers outside corporate supply chains. Includes campaigns for Dawah Delivery, Polo's Pantry, and Bay Area buyers' clubs.
View Campaign →Help transform a trailer into a collective, solar-powered cold storage unit for the Coalición de Pequeños Agricultores — eliminating cooler rental fees and giving campesin@ farmers infrastructure they own and control. Led by Tech for Liberation at Stanford.
View Campaign →Fundraising campaign for an Agroecological Training School & Landless Workers' Trust modeled after the IALA network — giving workers across the food chain access to land and training for worker ownership of food production. $4,447 raised toward a $30,000 goal.
View Campaign →One of our most important resourcing avenues is community-organized events — parties, concerts, flea markets, food vending pop-ups, art shows, and music benefits. If you have skills, a platform, a venue, or simply the energy to organize something, we want to build with you.
Tell us what you can bring and your region, and we'll connect you with the local organizing effort.
PLRCAWG is open to contracted engagements with institutions, universities, policy organizations, and allied formations seeking research expertise, political education facilitation, or community mapping work.
We bring deep experience in agroecological analysis, absentee landownership research, food system political economy, agrarian reform history, and popular education. We are fairly compensated for this work — and all contracted funds are redistributed directly toward campesin@ communities and the organizing initiatives they sustain.
All contracted proceeds are redistributed directly toward campesin@ communities and the organizing initiatives they sustain — not retained as organizational overhead.
To all partner organizations making this work possible
¡Vamos hacia la reforma agraria integral y popular!
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